Direct from his twitter account:

"The Fake News Media and their partner, the Democrat Party, is doing everything within its semi-considerable power (it used to be greater!) to inflame the CoronaVirus situation, far beyond what the facts would warrant. Surgeon General, “The risk is low to the average American.”
10:20 PM - Mar 9, 2020"

"So last year 37,000 Americans died from the common Flu. It averages between 27,000 and 70,000 per year. Nothing is shut down, life & the economy go on. At this moment there are 546 confirmed cases of CoronaVirus, with 22 deaths. Think about that!
1:47 AM - Mar 10, 2020"

Worth a read. It also back up my guestimate.

https://medium.com/@tomaspueyo...

My guestimate based on travellers to the USA being tested on their return is that there are over 100,000 infections already in the USA. Look for an Italy like explosion over the next week. After cancelling the NBA, the US Masters' golf tournament is next.

Do you think Trump will still say it's all fake news then?

Yes. I agree. Here in Australia, the USA is now close to our biggest source of infection. Based on the number we've seen and the number of travellers coming from the USA, implies around 0.03% of the population in the USA has it as of 5 days ago. That comes to 90,000 cases.

OK here is the thing. Most people who get covid-19 will experience nothing worse than a common cold. However, because we have no immunity to this virus, someone with covid-19 who doesn't self-isolate will infect a lot of other people, of which, on average around 15% will need hospitalization. Apart from the actual work of tracking and testing which appears to have worked in Japan, to make difference you would need to test everyone with a common cold. At any particular time, around 5% of the population will ave a cold which lasts about 10 days. So in the USA with it's 350 million people, you would have to test 20 million people over a 10 day period just for the USA. That is 2 million people a day, not 400 a day. Still 400 a day is a lot better than a number of States which managed a few dozen tests at best.

OpenOffice still sucks for Maths. Word is much better. This is a killer for me. I have to write Physics exams and share them with my colleagues. OO is not good enough.

So? What gives the SJW's the right to bully the Scientist? If the SJW's are correct his scientific peers will do the job for them. Contrary to your view, most Scientists would love come up with novel solution outside the mainstream. The Ulcer example is perfect. The discover won world-fame and a Nobel prize.

Dropbox has really nice gnome integration. I drop files in on one machine or on my phone and I get them on my desktop at work, my laptop and my phone. I'm happy to pay Dropbox $100 per year for 1 TB of cloud storage.

Mozilla is clearly doing something right.

Firstly they have Microsoft telling them they're wrong.
Secondly the latest stats I've found show Firefox market share increased by 10% in the most recent monthly statistics plot the top google search shows (from 9.1% to 10.05%)

See:

https://www.statista.com/stati...

Keep up the good work Firefox devs!

New providers would set up almost immediately. Probably bank-rolled by Google and Apple. California would have the best internet in the USA.

No one knows how to build EV's at the scale Tesla does. They're working it out as they going along too.

Within epsilon they did. What is the big deal? Everyone knew it was going to be bloody hard to do and no one else, including BYD has come close to producing 7000 cars with > 60 KWHr battery packs in a week. Now that is a big deal.

Actually, in the Australian State of South Australia, Wind power is curtailed rather often:

https://reneweconomy.com.au/wi...

It will get worse as more renewable energy is deployed locally and in neighbouring states. It's big factor in the business case for grid-scale storage. Pumped-Hydro is the next big thing in Australia.

My 87 year old mother keeps sending "Legitimate" Charities more money than she can really afford after they send her sob story emails. Because she has a record of supporting them in the past they won't let go. I'll never support a mainstream charity with an email operation again.

Nice of BMW to leave it to Tesla to be the first manufacturer capable of producing over 500,000 BEV's per year. The experience could enable them to continue to be the prime mover in this technology.